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Urge Congress to Protect Our National Forests
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to protect our national forests!
Since its enactment, the Roadless Rule has been considered one of the most important conservation wins in United States history, helping to protect millions of acres of National Forest land across the country. Unfortunately, last June 2025, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced that the USDA is rescinding the Roadless Rule..
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More than 100 members of the House and Senate have signed onto legislation (as of June 2026) that would codify the Roadless Rule so that, in the future, only an act of Congress could roll back protections for roadless areas within the National Forest System. The Roadless Area Conservation Act (H.R.3930 and S.2042), introduced by Rep. Andrea Salinas (OR) and Sen. Maria Cantwell (WA), has 80 cosponsors in the House and 25 cosponsors in the Senate.
Additional Background
The Roadless Area Conservation Rule, known as the Roadless Rule, was enacted in 2001. This Forest Service conservation rule protects the least-developed portions of our national forests from harmful roadbuilding and the resulting logging, mining, and oil and gas drilling that roads are built to enable. The Roadless Rule is essential to protecting public lands and nature for people and animals alike. We need it in order to protect wild lands for future generations.
From the beginning, the Roadless Rule has faced relentless attack from logging and resource extraction interests and political forces. Rescission of the rule is the single largest evisceration of public lands protections in American history.
The U.S. administration portrays these vital protections as overly burdensome regulations. The USDA’s press release announced: “Rescinding this rule will remove prohibitions on road construction, reconstruction, and timber harvest on nearly 59 million acres of the National Forest System, allowing for fire prevention and responsible timber production.” The environmental justice community understands the administration’s actions to be a blatant giveaway of public lands to the timber industry.
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